I played on a tournament on sunday and Energy Explosion was used on my characters. They used a blue Dr. Doom, they used perplex from both Dr. Doom (3 damage) and perplexed his damage to (plus one damage) taskmaster perplex (plus one damage), and enhancement from red psylocke (plus one damage). For a total of 6 damage. They targeted one of my characters and hit. There were three other characters adjacent to the targeted character. ALL my characters took six clix of damage EACH. I thought that the first character would take the full amount of damage (6) and the adjacent characters would only take one click each. Am I wrong about this? Someone please explain to me what happened. Also, if he had a Shield agent ( I cant remember) could this be used to enhance or inflict more damage to my characters?

You may have seen this question asked previously when I mistakenly thought the action was Force Blast I submitted the ? again hoping for a certain response....

Umm, you can't perplex EE damage unless they have changed something. When you use EE it reduces your damage to 1. You cant perplex in the middle of an action, so all that perplexing would be useless. They could have perplexed range and/or attack value, but not damage.

Enhancement on the other hand would work, as would SHIELD. In this case you would EE for 1 plus each enchancer/SHIELD. The splash damage is the same as the regular damage, so if boosted to 3, it's 3 splash too.

Looks like something fishy happened there. For one, you can't perplex damage on energy explosion--EE reduces damage to one. You can perplex attack, defense values, but not damage.

The only ways to increase EE damage is to either use enhancement or to use a shield agent (or two or three). Enhancement will increase damage to each character hit by one per character and Shield will increase the damage to each character dealt damage by one per tapped agent.

However, multiple Energy explosions will stack. That is, since Dr. Doom has two arrows he can hit two characters with EE. If those two characters are adjacent, then they will each take two clicks if both are hit (one for the EE that hit them, and one from the splash damage from the EE that hit the character next to them).

So, my E Dr. Doom, next to my psylocke, has a clear line of fire to your figs, B and C who are next to each other, and if he hits both figs with energy explosion, then he will deal 2 clicks direct damage to B (ee + enhancement), 2 clicks splash damage to C, 2 clicks direct damage to B, and 2 clicks splash damage to C. FOr a total of 4 clicks to each of them. Only way to get that up to 6 clicks each would be with a shield agent.

The example above is not possible under the rules--sounds like you all had some confusion, sorry that it worked out against you!

What about the figs who are next to B and C should they take 4 - 6 clix each?

any other figs adjacent to b only would take 2 clicks splash damage. andy figs adjacent to c only would take 2 clicks splash damage. a fig adjacent to both b and c would take 2+2 = 4 clicks splash